Obama campaigns with Michigan Dems as early voting starts

Change is in the air. We're voting for change right here in Michigan. And with Michigan shining in the political spotlight, the Democrats welcome their party's biggest star. Welcome to Fox 2 News at 10. I'm Dave Kinchin. Thank you so much for joining us. Former President Barack Obama firing up voters in Detroit, trying to get people to the polls as early voting gets underway. And OK, we're on this camera. OK, we're on this camera now. OK. All right. Sorry about that, folks. We want to get to Fox 2's Camille Amiri, who's live at Cass Tech High School. She was there for the rally. Camille, tell us about it. Yeah, I mean, this was a really energized crowd. There were a lot of candidates all up and down the ballot, all the Democrats who are running a lot riding on this election, and the energy was palpable. Take a look. Three months, you've probably seen a lot of folks talking about my name and my faith. They're trying to get you to question my love of this country. But let me be clear about something. No one understands the promise of America like a kid who was born here but for the accident of history. No one loves America like someone who understands exactly what America gave me. This election is a choice between leaders who will show up every day, as I will, as everyone you're hearing from tonight will, and work to bring down costs and wages and ensure our wages are going up and that we're ending corruption. It's a choice between those leaders and people like my opponent, John James, who are only fighting for the power. This election is our last, best chance to at least rein in some of the foolishness of this administration. It is the circuit breaker in the system. We've got to flip that circuit breaker, bring some accountability to this government. We didn't get into this moment overnight. We're not going to get out of it overnight. But Michigan, I know this election can be a start. This election can be an inflection point. This election can be a course correction in America's long journey towards a more perfect union. My main issue is health care because I'm a cancer patient. Someone who's 20 years old. Really a very energized crowd tonight here at Cass Tech. Meanwhile, of course, as you said, early voting started today. It runs through November 1st and then Election Day, of course, November 3rd. It's a Tuesday. Make your plan to vote. And then tomorrow, Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, will be in Port Huron rallying for all the Republicans. So a lot going on in Michigan. We'll have to stay tuned to see how it all plays out on November 3rd. Reporting live in Detroit, Camille O'Meary, Fox 2 News. Yeah, Camille, in watching former President Obama's speech, I saw him take a lot of points to touch on the tariff situation with Canada. That really got the crowd riled up, too. Yeah, you know, he's a great speaker. I mean, regardless of how you think of him politically, I mean, he knows how to work a crowd, and he's really funny. He was just talking about how Canadians are the nicest people you'll ever meet, which he's right. And he said, you know, here they gave us all these great things, and he named off Martin Short and Maple Syrup, and he's like, and look at what we're doing to them. So there were a lot of lighthearted moments during the whole rally, but again, the number one takeaway is to get out and vote. Yep, that's something certainly both sides of the political aisle are stressing. Fox 2's Camille O'Meary live at Cass Tech. Thank you so much. Well, Michigan's Republican Party sending us this statement on today's event. It reads in part, quote, Conman Abdul, the extreme left's fiercest critic of Barack Obama's presidency, begging him to help bail out his flailing campaign, demonstrates a pathetic pivot driven by desperation, end quote. The Republican Governors Association telling us, quote, Michiganders have been failed by years of Democrat control, the highest energy prices in the Midwest, an education system that ranks 45th in the nation, and six of Michigan's cities are on the most dangerous list. The idea that Barack Obama and Jocelyn Benson would share a stage with a terrorist sympathizer, Abdul El-Sayed, shows that the Democratic Party is not interested in fixing the issues facing Michigan's families and will always put politics over people, close quote.